Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture

Argues that during the period between the 1860s and the 1960s performance art offered the most favourable site for answering to stereotypes such as vanishing, pre-modern and degenerate races. Uses the careers of Ester Deer and Molly Nelson as examples. Chapter from: Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity edited by Lynda Jessup